soter <[email protected]> wrote: [1] Selma can keep her one-eyed economics lessons to herself. It just reveals the level of ignorance. [2] We have not washed firangi and arab toilets to develop our economic condition. [3] We have stayed put in our land and are proud to have toiled and made a decent living and that too ethically. [4] Our family has also served as Sarpanchas and panchas and we can walk with our head high in our village even to this day, a recognition I doubt Selma will get in her village. [5] Tarvottis and gulfies have stocked money in our banks to lend it to migrant businessmen. By the way lending by banks in Goa is less than 30%.
COMMENT: I have never before seen such an ungrateful, ignorant and disgraceful post - as the one above. Is Soter trying to suggest that Goans struggled on board the merchant vessels and in the 130 degree temperatures in the Gulf because they wanted to see Sand and Sea they had never seen before? Does he even know WHY Goan families had to send their young male children (initially) to these hardships? Just to use a post-1961 example: What happened to the cost of living post-1961? What happened to the earning potential of families? Where would the retired, elderly and disabled find the funds to pay for the dramatically increased cost of living? Is Soter suggesting that Goans went to the Gulf to wash Arab toilets? Really? And if they did (and got enough funds to support their families), is there any shame in work? Personal experiences apart, Is Soter also suggesting that Goa Panchayats are a hallowed set of organisations? Really? Shutes, you could have fooled me. It must be those Gulfies or those Tarvottis (both in absentia) who gave permissions for all those illegal constructions all over Goa. It could not be those (Honesht) Panchas and Sarpanchas who bring ad nauseam forth "No Confidence" motions because they are fighting to SERVE the populace. Yes Sir.... And (as Manuel Tavares has already noted), without the Gulfie and Tarvotti funds ......Goa would have survived. Right? But of course ..... Morjim has Panchayat and possibly, NO Tarvotti and Gulfie funds. It is doing very well indeed. It is even flying its own set of flags. Bravo Soter, Bravo! Yes, it is the fault of the Gulfies and the Tarvottis because they sacrificed and saved funds in Indian banks ..... They should (instead) have invested those funds in the Panchayats! ha!! jc
